The Visiting Astros with Top Predicted Hitter Yordan Alvarez Expected Winner Over the Royals

September 13, 2019 -- The visiting Astros has an estimated 89.73% chance to overcome the Royals based on our model.

On the mound for the Astros will be Gerrit Cole matched up against Danny Duffy. Gerrit Cole is estimated to have 1.234 earned runs, 24.211 outs, and 7.297 strike outs. Danny Duffy is estimated from the model to throw for 6.007 innings, allowing 3.673 earned runs, with 5.554 Ks.

Sluggers Yordan Alvarez from the Astros and Jorge Soler from the Royals will lead the their teams from the batter's box. Based on the Snoozle MLB model, Yordan Alvarez is predicted to bat for 0.325 with 1.128 RBIs and 0.900 runs scored. Based on the Snoozle model, Jorge Soler RF is predicted to have 0.442 RBIs and score 0.382 runs over an estimated 3.755 at-bats.

For this game the Astros are the best value on the money line bets with on the -385 away odds and a predicted 89.73% likelihood to win. With an over/under of 8.5 runs, according to our model the over is best value based its 57.26% over likelihood and -116 odds.